Summary: Editorial
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases: Two Years of
Providing Access to Innovation for the World's Poor ...
and Counting
Peter J. Hotez1
*, Serap Aksoy2
*
1 Sabin Vaccine Institute and Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine, George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, D.C., United
States of America, 2 Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
It has been almost two years since PLoS
Neglected Tropical Diseases was launched as
the first open-access journal devoted to the
neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). At that
time we aspired to achieve multiple goals
by creating a new journal for the NTD
community. We believed that through an
open-access format, we would provide an
immediate and vital mechanism by which
the community of NTD scientists, public
health experts, and health care profession-